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That left the 17th, a 441-yard par 4. It was a treacherous hole. The tee was set back in a funnel of trees overlooking a narrow creek. About 200 yards out, the hole began a deceptively sharp 75-degree dogleg right toward a 2800-square-foot green. There was deep rough and a line of thick trees on both sides of the fairway, and in front of the green there was a gaping pond that had already served as an unwelcome commode for the balls and dreams of more than a few players in the Pleasant Valley field...

Author: By Harry HURT Iii, | Title: The Real Victor Was a Cool Ole Killer | 8/20/1974 | See Source »

Doctors first became aware of the problem when Lee Strom, 60, a cook in a Walnut Creek, Calif., restaurant, was admitted to the University of California Medical Center with what Dr. Curt Ries diagnosed as agranulocytosis. The condition, characterized by the body's inability to produce white blood cells, had left Strom weak and feverish and with so severe an infection in his rectal area that doctors were forced to perform a colostomy, bypassing his lower bowel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Pills | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...home. There isn't no factory. They can make most of em with just a pocket knife, in a little shed beside the house or just inside." Are they packaged at home too, or in a central place? "Well, no, we got a little place near Beach Creek, a central place where they're packaged." And do the people gather the materials or what? "Well they either gather 'em or we help him, give 'em materials. We go around usually and teach the people how to do these toys. We're not really an industry, but we're getting bigger...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Pennies for the Old Guy | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...Creek, Wis., the Forest Hill Memorial Park cemetery converted some unused land into 30-foot-square garden plots and then rented 88 of them in less than an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Seed Money | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...tried to point out to Kenny what was happening, but it was no use with the noise. After a couple of miles, he pulled off the road and cruised past a sign that said Spruce Creek Farms. This was the road to the old airport where there were both sanctioned, that is Don Garlits and the Green Monster popping parachutes at the end of a 240 mph run, and midnight drags, which were accompanied by the popping of several kegs. After cutting through several roadblocks, we reached the old runway, which was clogged with grass busting through the cracks...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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